I see this sentiment posted quite a bit, but have the publishers made any products available that would allow AI training on their works for payment? A naive approach would be to go to an online bookstore and pay $15 for every book, but then you have copyrighted content that is encrypted, that it's a violation of the DMCA to decrypt.

I assume you're expecting that they'll reach out and cut a deal with each publishing house separately, and then those publishing houses will have to somehow transfer their data over to NVIDIA. But that's a very custom set of discussions and deals that have to be struck.

I think they're going to the pirate libraries because the product they want doesn't exist.

they already paid 10x more to their lawyers to ensure that torrenting for LLM training is perfectly legal, why they want to pay more?

Not spending money (vs spending money) helps make one rich!

Well... you don't want the good guys (Nvidia) giving money to the bad guys (Anna's Archive) right??? /s